Bar Cookies A to Z
A book by Marie Simmons

In this tempting collection, Marie Simmons brings together 50 recipes for North America's favorite kind of cookie-each one inventive enough for the most daring baker, yet simple enough to ensure the beginner perfect results. The most comprehensive book of bar cookie available, it includes all the traditional offerings, like brownies, hermits, fig bars, peanut-butter-chocolate bars and jam bars as well as delightfully sophisticated treats like:

• Lemon Love Notes
• Chocolate-Frosted Chocolate Espresso Bars
• White & Bittersweet Chocolate Chunk Bars

• Introduction
• Baking Notes
• Cutting the Bar
• The Bar Cookie Alphabet, A to Z
• Index

• Raspberry & Hazelnut Shortbread Bars – Linzer tarts – two round discs filled with raspberry jam – have always been my favorites. I have adapted the idea to a cookie. These melt-in-your-mouth, jam-filled bars are very good. The cookie layers are soft but chewy, almost cakelike. Make sure to use a good-quality raspberry jam. These are best after they have mellowed for one day.